St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-20
THE DAIRYMEN's MEETINGS.

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ell here Tuesday morning. The at
tendance for the first day was unusual
ly large and the meetings thus far have
been every way successful the mOst
noticeable feature being the practical
nature of the discussions and the live
ly interest taken in them by all the
dairymen present. Among the prOmi-
nent dairymen present the first day
was o. NJ. Tinkham, the active secre-
tary of the association, L. T. Hazen OF
Hazen's Mills, who "keeps" ITO cows
DIR. HOskins of Newport, A. w. Cheev-
or, editor of the N. E. Farmer, Henry
Lane of the board of agriculture, Geo.
B. Williams of WalpOle, N. H., and
others.
In the absence of President F. d.
Douglass, j. r. KenersOn of Peacham
presided at the first session Tuesday
ence meeting. A little of every thing
was talked about. j. r. Walker of
Springfield, who gathered in lot of
Bay state fair premiums recently, gave
something of his butter-making expe-
riences. Used FergusOn's creamer /;
kept ice in bag kept cream at go and
from 80 to AZ hours; salts ] OF. to
pound uses little water in washing :;
fed chiefly corn fodder and corn and
cob meal ; used one quart cotton seed
meal daily in morning feed thought
corn fed his way worth as much as
hay; fed some Oat straw; didn't be-
lieve Jerseys would give good color
regardless of feed thought cotton
seed meal didn't hurt butter and in
creased yield and profit. Made 2225
pounds last year averaged about 300
pounds per mature cow per year.
r. C. Smith of the board of agricul-
ture protested against hap hazard Sc
lection and feeding believed as much
Improvement might be made in dairy
cows by systematic feeding and selec-
ton as has been made in trotting
horses. A farmer should be ashamed
of small yield.
S. P. Douglass of ShOreham thought
heifers should be bred for special pur-
poses, either for butter, or cheese, or
milk, etc; favored short horn for gen.
eral purpose COW; sold his cows and
brought up heifers to take their places
in preference to selling heifers.
In response to the statement that
there are 25 or 80 herd in this state
that make 800 pounds per COW per
year, lady thought there were that
number in this county. Judge M. R.
Gray of Ryegate makes 5000 pounds
per year from herd averaging l8 ma
ture cows.
j. P. Miller of West Barnet had herd
grade and Jerseys made average of
little over 300 pounds per COW from 81
cows, averaging "a mature COWS; fed
bushel ensilage morning and night
with three quarts meal on it; meal
composition, 100 pounds cotton seed,
$50 corn meal, $50 bran at noon feeds
wheat, hay and timothy used to churn
milk from Go to $50 but now go to
700 thinks need of higher tempera-
ture due to ensilage with richer milk
higher temperature is needed washes
with little water and uses none in
churn !; thought over washing and over
hurt butter.
The difficulty of getting granular in
dash churns and also getting butter
from shallOw-set cream when not thin
ned was discussed by A. w. Cheever
of the N. E. Farmer. Thought dash |
churn requires thin cream, small dash,
slow churning unjust have thin shallow
set cream to make good butter; if pro-
perly set, cream don't need straining.
Sailing cattle then came up. By
show of hands it was found that most
present sailed twice a week, one every
day, all more OF less, but some not
regularly. DR.. HOskins spoke on this
question both intelligently and inter-
Whether quick churning is desirable
vas the next question. Mr.. Cheever
thought butter should not come too
quick, but moderately slow, but come
III at once and all come. Cream
hould be warmed gradually and not
leated SO as to melt if kept at 600 not
lifficult to get it up to 700 which was
Ugh enough. Cream should never
reeze. Cream from mixed milk should
ONE in 25 to IS minutes As minutes
90 long.
Evening Session.
In the evening Vice President Geo.
;. Williams of WalpOle, N. H., presid-
d. Henry Lane of the board of agri-
ultnre read an essay on ''Dairy Cow
nd Feed" After noting the great ad-
in the knowledge and care {
f dairy cows and in butter making {
he urged that nothing con- ]
erning the cow or it's feed should be
verlOOked. The food should fully i
upply all the wastes of the animal and I
his in the form cheapest and easiest c
stimulated. Before any valuable re-
urn can be expected the animal must c
eceive a supporting ration. To this a
lust be added enough to produce her '
roper yield of milk. On the skill of r
he feeder in doing this depends the a
rOfts of his business. The principle a
n which this is to be done and the O
umerOus figures involved in their Fl